Sharon Zhou has joined Anthropic after AI leadership work at Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), saying she intends to return to frontier-model research as the companies pursue a separate GPU deployment plan.
At Anthropic, Zhou said, she expects to take up research on frontier models again. She joined AMD in June 2025 alongside several people from startup Lamini. Her first role there was AI vice president, focused on research and related work. By 2026, AMD was describing her as chief of staff for AI. Zhou said that position reported directly to CEO Lisa Su.
The companies also have a commercial hardware plan. AMD says Anthropic plans to deploy up to two gigawatts of AMD Instinct MI450 GPUs in Helios systems. Deployment of the first gigawatt is scheduled to start in the first half of 2027, according to AMD’s planned GPU deployment with Anthropic.
AMD describes Helios as a rack-scale system combining sixth-generation EPYC server processors with MI450-series Instinct GPUs. The company has named Anthropic among organizations running workloads on early Helios systems.
